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The Swedish Chef and an early version of Rizzo the Rat, on display in the Smithsonian Institution. (Photo by Rudi Riet)

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Character

A parody of television chefs, the Swedish Chef wears a toque blanche and has bushy eyebrows that completely obscure his eyes. He was one of the few Muppets to employ an actual puppeteer's hands, originally Oz's, in the designs — that is, they were visible to the audience through his sleeves and facilitated handling food and utensils. A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. ... The Swedish Chef, wearing a toque blanche A toque blanche is a tall, starched, white, pleated hat worn by chefs, although the blanche is nearly always dropped. ... A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a puppet— in real time to create the illusion of life. ...

Nearly all Swedish Chef sketches begin with him in a kitchen, waving some utensils while singing his signature song in a trademark mock Swedish — a semi-comprehensible gibberish which parodies the characteristic vowel sounds of Swedish. The opening song usually sounds possibly something like: "Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue / Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn børk! børk! børk!", but in fact changes subtly in every episode. For the language game, see Gibberish (language game). ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...

After this introduction, the Chef throws the utensils aside and continues speaking gibberish while preparing a particular recipe. His commentary is spiced with the occasional English word to clue in the viewer to what he is attempting. These clues are necessary as he frequently uses unorthodox culinary equipment (firearms, tennis racquets, etc.) to prepare his dishes. The sketch typically degenerates into a slapstick finale where the ingredients or equipment get the better of him. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Slapstick (disambiguation). ...

In one sketch, a misaimed explosive charge slightly damaged the face of the puppet. The Chef's face remained scarred through the rest of the season.

Computer translations

The Chef's gibberish gained a life of its own with the creation of a Unix lex filter capable of converting standard English to "chefspeak" in 1992. The filter quickly became a staple of hacker culture and eventually spread to the mainstream with "Swedish Chef" translators on several websites; there is a popular add-on available for Mozilla Firefox called "Bork Bork Bork!", which allows the selective "translation" of text from web pages of the user's choice. In 2003 Opera Software published a special "Bork" version of its internet browser, which turned the MSN website into "Swedish." Google offers "Bork, bork, bork" as one among its choices for user interface language and Meebo offers "Bork!" as one of its language preferences. There also appeared a plethora of USENET newsgroups named after the chef's speech, the first being "alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork", after which the repeated ending was incorporated into groups like "alt.ensign-wesley.die.die.die" and "alt.fan.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack." In addition, the popular MMORPG Guild Wars has a "Bork! Bork! Bork!" language option. For the language game, see Gibberish (language game). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... lex is a program that generates lexical analyzers (scanners or lexers). Lex is commonly used with the yacc parser generator. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, nowadays called SeaMonkey suite. ... Firefox may refer to: Firefox (novel), written by Craig Thomas, published in 1978 Firefox (film), the 1982 movie starring Clint Eastwood, based on the novel Firefox (arcade game), the laserdisc arcade game based on the movie Mozilla Firefox, a web browser The Red Fox or the Red Panda, based on... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Logo of Opera Software. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... For other uses, see MSN (disambiguation). ... This article is about the corporation. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... Meebo is an in-browser instant messaging program which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ [1], and Jabber and is based on the free and open source library libpurple created by the software developers of Pidgin[2]. // Although still in its early... Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. ... A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. ... Wesley Crusher is a character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Tonya Harding performs a triple axel jump at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. ... An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2004, based on active subscriptions. ... This article is for the Guild Wars series. ...

Inspiration

Some claim that the Swedish Chef was inspired by a real life chef. One example is Friedman Paul Erhardt, a German American television chef known as "Chef Tell".^[1][2] Another example is Lars "Kuprik" Bäckman, a real life Swedish chef. Bäckman claims that his rather unsuccessful appearance on an early edition of Good Morning America caught the attention of Jim Henson, who later bought the rights to the recording and created Bäckman's Muppet alter ego. Bäckman's Dalecarlian accent would explain the chef's strange pronunciation. Muppet writer Jerry Juhl denied Bäckman's story and insisted the character had no real-world counterpart: "I wrote, rehearsed, rewrote, brainstormed, and giggled uncontrollably a thousand times with Jim Henson as we dealt with the Swedish Chef, and I never once heard him mention an actual Swedish chef..."^[3] Friedman Paul Erhardt (November 5, 1943 – October 26, 2007) was a German American pioneering television chef. ... German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry. ... For other uses, see Chef (disambiguation). ... Lars Kuprik Bäckman is the real-world chef who, rumor has it, served as the inspiration for the popular Swedish Chef character in The Muppets. ... Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. ... Jim Henson, born James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history. ... Dalecarlia, or Dalarna, is a historical Province or landskap in the west of middle Sweden. ... Jerry Juhl (July 27, 1937 - September 27, 2005) was a television and movie writer best known for his work with Jim Hensons Muppets. ...

Name

The Swedish chef’s actual name appears in one episode, in which Danny Kaye plays the chef's uncle. The name Kaye rattles off is (something like) "Sjøø Hjørste Früden de Gooste Boodne Oonde oot te Fæbbe Sjørt-Fÿrste de Børnd" but, Kaye's character goes on, "we call him Tom" (though, based on the chef's reaction, he may have been kidding about the "Tom" part). [1] (Video) Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ...

Merchandising

The first Swedish Chef merchandise item was a ceramic coffee mug produced by Kilncraft in the UK in 1978. It was part of a series of 12 featuring various Muppet Show characters, and featured coloured line drawings on either a white or beige ceramic cup. The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

In 1980, Jones New York offered a small collection of blue and yellow Swedish Chef kitchen linens including an apron, pot holders, and toaster cover. Miss Piggy linens in pink were also available. Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Miss Piggy being moved on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Miss Piggy is a Muppet character primarily played by Frank Oz. ...

From 1988 to 1989, the Swedish Chef had his own short-lived breakfast cereal for sale in grocery stores, called "Cröonchy Stars." Cröonchy Stars brought with it a small variety of Swedish Chef items, most notably a stuffed Chef doll complete with non-removable wooden rolling pin and spoon. There was also a coffee mug bearing a picture of the Chef and the logos of Post Cereal and Cröonchy Stars. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For a large scale grocery store, see supermarket. ... Cröonchy Stars box Cröonchy Stars was a breakfast cereal that hit the shelves in 1988 and was discontinued about a year later. ... Post Cereals, formerly Postum Cereals was founded by C. W. Post. ...

In 2000, German company Igel released a large (35cm) plush Swedish Chef as part of the second wave of its stuffed Muppets line. In addition, there was a life-sized version available measuring nearly five feet tall. Though expensive, the huge Chef proved popular enough with collectors that the line was expanded the following year with five-foot plush versions of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great, Animal, Statler and Waldorf. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Kermit singing Bein Green in the first season of Sesame Street. ... Miss Piggy being moved on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Miss Piggy is a Muppet character primarily played by Frank Oz. ... Gonzo, Gonzo the Great, or The Great Gonzo (said to be short for Gonzales in The Muppet Show) is a puppet character, one of Jim Hensons Muppets. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Statler (right) and Waldorf Statler & Waldorf are fictional characters, a pair of grumpy old men who first appeared in the television series The Muppet Show heckling the rest of the cast from their balcony seats. ...

Also in 2000, UK food chain Little Chef released a small toy car called Swedish Chef's Sporty Sponge (the Chef riding a cake on wheels) as part of line of promotional Muppet Corgi cars. Little Chef is a chain of roadside restaurants in the United Kingdom, founded in 1958 and owned by the UK private equity group RCapital. ... The distinctive Corgi logo Corgi Cars was launched in 1956 as a new range of model cars by Mettoy Playcraft LTD, the toy car company founded in 1936. ...

2002 was celebrated as the 25th anniversary of The Muppet Show, which brought a flurry of new Muppet toys and collectables. Included in this was a line of action figures from Palisades Toys, which would run through 2005 and grow to include many dozens of figures. Palisades' Swedish Chef items include: Also see: 2002 (number). ...

• A large and very detailed Swedish Kitchen playset, with a very realistic miniature kitchen and over 40 accessories including many cooking tools and odd items such as a saw and tennis racket.
• The first Swedish Chef action figure, included with the Swedish Kitchen playset, has a blue striped shirt and plaid pants.
• "Culinary Catastrophe" Chef, an exclusive figure sold at the 2003 San Diego comic Convention, includes the lobster banditos from the show and their guns. The body of the Chef has a different paint job so it appears to be splattered with food, and his clothing colours are different.
• Classic Swedish Chef has plainer clothing colours than the earlier Kitchen version and comes with several accessories including his gun and a basketball hoop.
• Santa Swedish Chef, an eBay exclusive item for the 2004 Christmas season, is dressed as Santa Claus and includes a holiday wreath and lights.
• A small non-articulated PVC figure featuring Chef holding a spoon and a live chicken in a pot.

In 2003, Sideshow Collectables offered a Swedish Chef bust statue as part of the third wave of its line of Muppet busts. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the online auction center. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

With the Muppets characters being owned by Disney as of late 2004, there is reason to believe that there will be a healthy amount of merchandise for the Chef and other Muppets in the foreseeable future. Other modern Swedish Chef items include yet another plush doll (this time a smaller 18" one), a Disney metal lapel pin, and a small tin of mints. Disney redirects here. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Stamp

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Video Game

Also a Muppets game for Nintendo Gameboy Advance or SP was released and one of the levels featured the Swedish Chef. The goal of the level was for the Swedish Chef to hit Rizzo and his rat friends with a frying pan because they were trying to steal food. An obstacle to avoid was chickens throwing eggs at the Swedish Chef.

Typical episodes

• Chocolate Mousse

The Chef announces he will be making chocolate mousse, for which he first prepares some liquid chocolate ("Yom-yom-yooom, ze chocolad!"), then proceeds to acquire the other ingredient: a moose named Mickey (Mickey Moose). Kermit rushes in to stop the skit as the Chef starts to spread chocolate on the moose's snout.

• Salad ala Boom-Boom

While making a salad, the Chef demonstrates his unique technique for shredding: the "Boom-Boom," an antique pistol, with which he shoots vegetables after throwing them into the air. The whole process is observed by Statler and Waldorf, who comment on the rather unorthodox cooking style. Curiously, the Chef shoots a cabbage, which is "chopped" into Brussels sprouts.

• Flap Jacks

The Chef flips some pancakes, after announcing "Flappen-jacken," but they land on the ceiling. He then takes out the Boom-Boom and shoots overhead, causing over a dozen pancakes to fall on him.

• Lobster-Bandidos

The Chef's attempt to cook a lobster is ambushed by a gang of pistol-wielding moustachioed lobsters wearing sombreros and muttering in a quasi-Mexican dialect. They manage to free the victim from the pot, and intimidate the Chef by shooting the cleaver out of his hand.

• Donuts

Once again the Boom-Boom is in action, this time used to create donuts from muffins. ("Zee de moofin? Ond ik will mit de boome shooten!")

• Eggs

The Chef attempts to make eggs by persuading a chicken to lay some. The chicken resists until he threatens her with a cleaver. At this point, the chicken lays something. The Chef picks it out from under her, only to realize that it is a bomb which promptly goes off.

• Eggs/Running Gag

Again the Chef tries to get his chicken to lay eggs, but all he gets for his trouble are ping-pong balls. He grabs his frying pan, intending to cook her now, and the chicken runs for her life. The resulting chase ranges all over the kitchen and becomes a recurring joke throughout the rest of the show, interrupting other skits from time to time.

• Pressed Duck

When the Chef tries to prepare this dish using a live duck, it steals the iron he was going to use for the pressing and drops it on his head.

• Swedish Meatballs

The Chef attempts to cook meatballs. He accidentally drops one from the skillet and it bounces offstage; confused, the Chef refers to his attempted dish as "beency-bouncy burgers." He then proceeds to demonstrate how to "serve" such a meal by "serving" (in the tennis sense) several with a tennis racket. Statler returns a volley making it up into the balcony with Waldorf commenting afterward, "15-Love."

• Turkey

The Chef is planning to cook turkey during Muppet Family Christmas, but the smooth-talking turkey points out Big Bird in another room. Exclaiming "gobbla-gobbla-humunga!" [sic], the Chef invites Big Bird into the kitchen and gets ready to cook him up However, he loses his nerve after Big Bird gives him a present and the two sing The Christmas Song. He instead decides to prepare "shreeper veet und crannenbungschus," meaning shredded wheat and cranberry sauce.

• Turkey Part 2

The Chef and his uncle (played by Danny Kaye) prepare an international dish (which involves taking a Swiss turkey, stuffing him with Chinese ingredients, and turning him into a Yugoslavian chicken). The Chef brings in a live turkey, causing his uncle to explain the work they would have to do to him, which traumatizes him so much he flies away. The Chef brings out the Boom-Boom and shoots in the air, causing feathers to rain down on his uncle. The uncle takes the Boom-Boom and shoots in the air, which results in a mock cooked turkey on a tray to come down, which he catches.

• Chicken in a Basket

The Chef plays with a chicken as if it was a basketball, bouncing it and shooting it into a basketball goal, scoring "two points". The name is a reference to Chicken In a basket.

• Fish Chowder

The Chef attempts to cook a still alive fish, who steals his pepper shaker and also bites his nose.

• Frog Legs

The Chef is rushed onstage without having time to prepare. He attempts to cut off a leg of Kermit's nephew Robin while Robin screams for his uncle, who rescues him.

• Hot Dogs

The Chef demonstrates how to cook hot dogs (the right way, for once). After a misunderstanding about the whereabouts of Miss Piggy's beloved dog Fou Fou, she and the Chef get into a fight. Miss Piggy attempts to karate chop him, but hits the metal pot cover that Chef defends himself with.

• Spaghetti

The Chef makes spaghetti, which comes to life and tries to run away, until he puts it back on the plate. The spaghetti tries to run away again, but he brings it back a second time. The spaghetti then attacks the Chef by strangling him.

• Dough

The Chef kneads a mass of bread dough that slowly comes to life and begins to fight back. He then goes for his rolling pin, only to have the dough snatch it away and knock him out with it.

• Japanese Cake

As the Chef decorates a chocolate cake and prepares to cut it, it starts cursing at him in mock Japanese. After checking his phrasebook, he delivers a comeback, gets insulted again, then ends the argument by deploying his "Cakensmöoscher" (a baseball bat).

• Turtle Soup

The Chef is trying to prepare a live turtle to go into this dish. Every time he tries to chop off the head, though, it retreats into the shell and peeks out the other side. He grabs the Boom-Boom only to find that the turtle has turned its shell into a gun turret, which promptly shoots him down.

• Hot Sauce

The Chef concocts a batch of pepper sauce that is spicy enough to send steam pouring out of his ears. His next attempt packs so much heat that his hat is blown off--taking the top of his head with it.

• Coconut

The Chef throws a whole coconut toward the ceiling and fires the Boom-Boom, intending to shred it in midair. The first thing to come down is a rubber chicken, followed by the undamaged coconut, which knocks him silly.

• Banana Split

The Chef attempts to split a banana with an axe, but every time he gets ready to, a conga line interrupts him by dancing along the screen in front of him accompanied by the Mexican Hat Dance song. This happens twice, resulting in him getting a pot on his head, and chopping open a bag of flour. He decides to use the banana peel and goads the dancers to come back. They then dance in front of him, slipping on the banana peel, much to the Chef's delight, as now he can continue his banana split. However, when he attempts to split the banana again, he accidentally throws the axe up into the air, causing it to chop into the pot on his head, but not into his skull. The Chef, now defeated, splits the banana with his hands.

• Squirrel Stew

This episode takes place in the forest instead of the Chef's kitchen. Finding himself short of squirrels for the stewpot, he first tries asking them nicely to come down from their tree, then shakes it to dislodge them. The squirrels gang up on him, whereupon he goes after them with his cleaver only to lose it to an angry bear.

• The Muppet Movie (1979)

The Chef is the projectionist. Halfway through the film the projector malfunctions and the Chef says "Er, der film go flip-flip-flip-flip-flip!" After fixing the snapped film he pronounces, "Der flim is hokey dokey!"

• Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

The Chef appears on an island where the natives, a tribe of boars, practice cannibalism. He wears a pig snout mask to resemble members of the tribe. After his initial appearance speaking gibberish and the traditional "bork bork bork", a tomato on his ingredient table says directly to the camera, "Well, how else did you think we were going to get him into this movie?"

• Muppets From Space

At the beginning of the movie, the Chef explains that the raspberry flopovers went "Kaboof!" as green stuff shoots out of a faulty oven.

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Miscellanea

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• Several P2P services and websites have a sound bite called "Iron Chef vs. Swedish Chef" where the two compete.
• Wyclef Jean appeared with the chef on the MTV Europe Music Awards in Stockholm, Sweden, 16 November 2000.
• In Sweden the Swedish Chef is known as "Svenske Kocken" ("The Swedish Chef" in Swedish).
• A guide to learning Swedish by Urban Sikeborg states that special care should be given to pronunciation, otherwise "...you might end up sounding disquietingly like the Swedish Chef in the Muppet Show."^[5]
• In Germany the Swedish Chef is Danish and his song is "Smørrebrød, Smørrebrød røm, pøm, pøm, pøm"
• The Swedish Chef recently appeared on Cartoon Network's Robot Chicken, a show using toys and Mego dolls to create sketch comedy scenes. The sketch involved the Chef running into various people and things that rhyme with "bork" including Björk, Mork, a dork, a poster for New York, Quark, Peter Tork, a guy playing Zork, a man selling pork, a fork, a spork, and an Orc. The sketch ended with the Chef returning home and yelling at his wife, "Get the Hell off my back, woman! Can't I get a moment of fucking peace!?" for asking him about his day. Seth Green, the series' co creator, is a Muppet fan.
• The animated cartoon series for the popular webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del features an episode where the main character, Ethan, is haunted by a floating Swedish Chef while trying to cook dinner.
• In 2006, the Swedish Chef was displayed at the Smithsonian. Remarkably, in a display consisting of such iconic material as the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz and other classic Hollywood material, staff chose to give the Chef the most prominent position - in a large glass case to open the exhibit section.
• In their third contest for the 2006-2007 school year (usually involving string manipulation), the American Computer Science League asked students to write a program that converted English into chef-speak based on a certain set of rules.
• In an episode of Family Guy, Stewie notes that Jim Henson had a "wait-and-see attitude" and as a result of that we have wrong sounding Muppets which then cuts to a scene with Kermit talking to The Swedish Chef with their voices sounding different. He later appears with Kermit later in the episode with Fozzie coming up and saying "Wokka-wokka, who wants to hear a funny-ass joke?" sounding like an African-American.
• The Chef appeared with fellow Muppets Animal and Beaker in a joke segment in the America's Got Talent second season finale, replacing the normal judges as they "judged" the duet performed by Terry Fator and Kermit the Frog, the joke being that none of the judges could be understood well. The Chef told Terry Fator that he was "Okey-dokey" but that Kermit was "No okey-dokey."
• A 2007 Saturday Night Live skit entitled "Rowlf and the Swedish Chef" featured guest host Seth Rogen dressed as Rowlf and Andy Samburg dressed as Swedish Chef performing "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" accompanied by members of the Electric Mayhem.

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See also

• Jive filter
• Swedish cuisine

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References

1. ^ LaBen, Craig. "'Chef Tell' Erhardt, 63, early TV chef", Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007-10-29. Retrieved on 2007-10-30. 
2. ^ "Friedman Paul Erhardt", Associated Press, Legacy.com, 2007-10-30. Retrieved on 2007-10-30. 
3. ^ Chapman, Phillip (2001-07-03). Will the real Swedish Chef please stand up?. Muppet Central. Retrieved on 2007-11-02.
4. ^ The 2005 Commemorative Stamp Program at USPS
5. ^ http://web.hhs.se/isa/swedish/

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External links

• Muppet Wiki: The Swedish Chef
• alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork, the USENET newsgroup for discussing the Chef.
• Veekipedia, zee free-a incyclupedeea - Wikipedia's Swedish Chef page translated into Swedish Chef.
• GNU Talk Filters converts ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialect including Swedish chef.
• bork entry in Wiktionary
• "Bork!" language setting on Meebo
• Bork, Bork, Bork! Mozilla Firefox

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• [2] -Google in Bork Bork